父

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/父

Glyph origin
– A hand holding a stone, referring to a man working with a stone axe.

Etymology
From.

Regular development from Middle Chinese would lead to the labiodental fù in Mandarin, but the colloquial word resisted the sound changes and is now written as, with the phonetic component added to it to indicate the unchanged bilabial initial.

Definitions

 * 1) father

Definitions

 * 1)  old man; elderly man

Etymology 1
From, from.

Still in modern usage.

Noun

 * 1) father
 * 2)  a father figure
 * 3)  God, the Holy Father
 * 1)  a father figure
 * 2)  God, the Holy Father
 * 1)  God, the Holy Father
 * 1)  God, the Holy Father

Usage notes

 * This term conveys neither positive nor negative connotations. However, using it to describe someone the speaker knows personally is often considered lacking respect, where more polite forms like are preferred.
 * This term is sometimes used in objective narrations, but for this purpose, is more common.

Etymology 2
Appears in the  of roughly 970.

Glossed as “I[gualmente], chichi. ” (“same as chichi. Father”) in .

Shift from chichi.

Usage continued until at least the early 1700s.

Noun

 * 1)  one's own father

Etymology 3
Appears in the  of 1603.

Originally a shift from chichi or tete in baby talk, used by children to refer to their own father.

Still in modern usage.

Noun

 * 1)  one's own father: daddy
 * 2)  a husband, master of the house
 * 1)  a husband, master of the house

Etymology 4
→ →

Likely a contraction of.

Noun

 * 1)  one's own father
 * 2)  the head or master of an establishment such as a teahouse, boathouse, etc.

Etymology 5
The “father” and “uncle” affixes is from.

The “old man” affix is from.

Affix

 * 1) father
 * 2) father figure
 * 3) uncle
 * 4) old man, elderly man

Etymology 6
From a corruption of.

Affix

 * 1)  old man

Etymology 7
→ * → →

From. Appears in the  of 720 as unvoiced kaso. Further derivation unknown.

May have fallen out of use by 1603, when neither kaso nor kazo are found in the . Kaso would be here as the sixth entry from the bottom on the left, and kazo would be here as the eighth from the bottom on the right.

Noun

 * 1)  one's own father

Etymology 1
From.

Etymology 2
From.

Etymology 1
Reduplication of ti below.

Noun

 * 1) one's own father
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Etymology 2
Eastern dialect of titi above.

Noun

 * 1)  one's own father

Etymology 3
From.

Noun

 * Note: Poem 39 of the  is similar to this but replaces with.
 * Note: Poem 39 of the  is similar to this but replaces with.
 * Note: Poem 39 of the  is similar to this but replaces with.
 * Note: Poem 39 of the  is similar to this but replaces with.

Etymology 4
.

Noun

 * 1) one's own father